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Discussion on: When Is the Perfect Time to Move on as a Developer?

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Rene Padillo 🇵🇭 • Edited

great article, I can somehow relate a bit with 1 year repeated 20 times, however on my end it's more like 1~2 years every company. The problem I have before is not that I am not learning anymore but the financial problem side where I was like more underpaid and somehow it's not worth it that I am having a lot of responsibilities for a small pay.

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Alex Fedorov

Maybe there is a skill you could have developed to fix the underpay problem? ;)

(spoiler: it’s not a software development skill).

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Rene Padillo 🇵🇭

no, actually it's how the company was earning money.
imagine being paid once a month + 1~2 weeks delay.

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Alex Fedorov

That doesn’t sound too good. Likely, the business model wasn’t very sustainable, and they have made it possible by underpaying. Was the company, at least, a place where a beginner can rapidly learn? or not?

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Rene Padillo 🇵🇭

well, atleast during that time it was a place for beginner to rapidly learn, most of it were self-learning since no one at my company was doing front-end web development. A year in working in the company did help me a lot with boosting my experience, but yeah the pay was so terrible that I need to find a stable salary.

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Alex Fedorov

Okay. At least you got something out of the engagement—that’s great!